Dickey Name Origin and Family Crest

The Dickey last name has English roots. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is “descendant of little Dick, a pet form of Richard (rule, hard)”. It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear. Smith also lists Dickie.

Dickey ranked 1,542 in the 2010 US Census, with 23,320 people answering to the name.

Sharing the Dickey name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Get the complete Dickey report, with a museum-style coat of arms.